Children Quote by Adam Zagajewski

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth…

— Czesław Miłosz

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

— George Orwell

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen